Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.
The Educational COnven-
tiOn at Chicago.
DAKOTA WANTS TO BE DIVIDED.
Teemer and HOsmer Carry off the
Laurels at the Worcester
Regatta.

Regatta.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
| CHICAGO, July 14.-In the conven-
vention of the National Educational
Association to-day, the report of the
Committee on the Nomination of Off
GERS named as President, Aaron Cove,
of Colorado; Secretary, James H.
Garfield, of Kansas; Treasurer, Ed
win c. Hewitt; First Vice-President
William f. Sheldon, Massachusetts.
DR.. James B. Angel, President of
the Michigan University, read an
essay on the relation of the university
college and higher chronological
schools to the public system of in
struction: "The Relation of the
University"
The following is an abstract of his
remarks:
| l. We recognize as fact that the
universities preceded and helped to
build the lower schools.
2. We recognize as fact that the
universities were aided in reaching an
elevated position by the growing ex-
cellence of the lower schools.
8. From regard to their own inter-
ests, and from broad views of their
duty to public education, the universi-
ties must help the schools in all ways
possible. Some of these ways are the
following:
(a> By showing interest in the
schools; not holding aloof from them !;
making the schools feel that the uni
versity regards its interests and theirs
as common interests. The university
professors should take part in the con-
ventions of school teachers and school
administrators.
(b) BY specially training teachers I;
by having competent professors of
pedagogy; by making the study of ed
ucational methods part of university
work.
(c) BY throwing responsibility back
on the schools and trusting them, as
in the Michigan system Of receiving
students into the university, under
proper precautions, on the certificates
of the superintendents or principals or
boards of schools.
Id BY not asking of the schools
more than they can do well, and yet
Encouraging and aiding them to raise
the grade of their work as rapidly as
possible.
The subject was discussed by num-
Der of gentlemen, among them MIR.
Campbell.
| IN THE EVENING
The principal topic was the means of
culture to be provided for the Ameri-
can people beyond the ordinary school
period: "By Evening Schools" by
Albert p. Marble, PHI. D., Superin-
tendent Schools, Worcester, Mass.
The following is an abstract of his
remarks:
| /. These schools are designed to
take the place of the old apprentice
schools. They supplement the day
schools.
III. They are designed for persons
of both sexes, Is years old or more.
They furnish the opportunity for child
rem who have been obliged to leave
school before they have acquired suffi-
cient knowledge to study profitably by
themselyes,-where they may receive
sufficient instruction to enable them to
use the library to advantage, and thus
become self-taught.
| III. These schools also provide the
means OF instruction for our imported
| Ifellow-citizens whose early opportuni-
ties were scant, and for foreigners of
other tongues settling with us to learn
our language.
". 1t should not be the aim to so
expand these schools as to make them
as extensive with the day schools
a sort of ghostly school system, mas
querading by night, the shadow, the
echo of the day schools.
V. Study is work; and children
who work by day ought to sleep by
night. These institutions ought not
to entice from school young children
with the delusion that they can work
by day and study by ght,-for, in
this case, the education will be fail
ure, the work will be poor, and the
child will be deprived OF his right to
rest and grow.
/ L. IL Is u titltlSlOily aiSCt w puP
pose that the public should supply
college training by night to all who
think they want it. The public should
not attempt to provide everything for
Everybody. The theory of our govern
ment is to let people have chance to
help themselves, and this applies to
schools as well as to trades"
| Various department meetings were
held as usual by the school superin-
ltendents, and the topic of '"The Super
intendence and the use of good litera-
ture in schools" was well discussed at
length by Ira G. Hoitt, Superintendent
of Public Instruction in California,
Aaron Cove Superintendent OF Schools,
Denver, and others.
NEXT YEARS MEETING.
The board of directors of the Nation
al Educational Association passed
unanimously the following resolu-
tions after spirited discussion:
Resolved, "that a communication
from the legislature of the State OF Cali
fornia and from the several railroad
companies that have made a proposition
for low fares, be respectfully received
and referred to committee of five
with power to determine the time and
place of the next Association meeting,
with instructions that they select the
city of San Francisco, provided that
satisfactory arrangements be made
there for Superintendent Hoitt,
Campbell and Young. All the men,
bers of the Board made vigorous
speeches in favor of San Francisco as
the next place OF meeting.
TO DIVIDE DAKOTA.
RESOLUTIONS Adopted at the HUI